This was being predicted that Extratorrent might go down soon when they went offline two days back. Speculations speak of an error in hosting which led to the termination, still, the reasons are not clear. Though it was still available on several VPNs, but soon it blanked out too.

With the imminent shutdown, soon the largest Torrent Indexing website in the world, Pirate Bay experienced mass rush on their site, as several uploaders who failed to upload their infringing content on Extratorrents, choose Pirate Bay as their alternative. Several softwares and tools are being used by big production houses to take down such illegal content, and soon it will affect other torrent websites.

Torrent Sites Taken Down Permanently Till Now

Well, yesterday it was Kickass, today it’s Extratorrent and soon it will be the other torrent sites. It’s just a matter of a few months from now when the other big torrent indexing sites will start facing similar problems, and ultimately will be forced to take their sites down.

Here are big torrent sites that were forced to shut down permanently:

ExtraTorrent

KickAssTorrents

Torrentz.eu

Popcorn Time

Coke & Popcorn

TorrentHound

No Resurrection in Future (Developers Quit)

Extratorrent and History

ExtraTorrent dates back to 2006, when it came into existence. With performing low for the first few years, at a time when the big torrent sites like TorrentSpy and Mininova dominated the internet. Though they soon grew and developed it’s own base and outgrew many big sites with millions of visitors visiting daily on their site.